We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
We can only lose what we have first claimed.
Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.
It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don’t even know your phone number.
Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.
Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.
Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.
It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.
Everyone has problems. It’s how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.
Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don’t believe that frighten me a little.
I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
Joy isn’t the natural response to blessings – joy is what comes from acknowledging them.
The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
Only those who never step, never stumble.